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how the legs were made. If they were repoussé, as the head is, the spaces inside 
have been carefully filled and show no hollows, though one is present at the head. 
Vessel No. 102. А bottle of ordinary dark ware, having a kind of collar in 
relief below the neck, and three rounded feet at the base, forming a tripod support. 
Apparently these feet were added after the bottle was otherwise complete, as holes 
have been roughly knocked in the base of the bottle where the feet join the body 
to enable the feet, which are hollow, to share in the holding capacity of the vessel. 
Vessel No. 120. Ап interesting little bowl (Fig. 41), having on one side ап 
animal head, and a conventionalized tail on the opposite side. Fore and hind legs 
appear on the vessel; these are connected on each side by a festooned band in 
relief, on which are notches. 
Vessel No. 58. А bottle of compound form (Fig. 42) representing а bottle 
placed in a bowl which rather rudely represents a frog. The ware is most inferior. 
Vessel No. 30. А bottle, shown in Fig. 43, having a neck leaving the bottle 
on opposite sides and joining above, a type well known in the Middle Mississippi 
region and elsewhere. This bottle is shown here not because it presents any novel 
feature, but for the reason that it is a good example of the asymmetry which to 
such a marked extent characterizes the vessels of the St. Francis region. We have 
said so much of the “‘lop-sidedness” of these vessels and have shown so few of them 
in this report that it seemed to us that an example might reinforce our statements 
on the subject. 
CATFISH MOUNDS, Cross County. 
On the right bank of the river, on property of Mr. R. R. Rodgers, of Smith- 
dale, Ark., is a cultivated field about ten acres in extent, surrounded by forest 
except on the river side. The field is covered with humps of artificial forma- 
tion, the largest about 5 feet in height and 75 feet across the base. A circular 
depression, dry at the time of our visit, is at the northwestern side of the mound, 
while a short distance to the eastward is another depression, circular and filled with 
water when we were there. Similar humps and pools occur in numbers in the sur- 
rounding woods. This place is known as the Catfish Mounds. 
Comparatively few signs of early occupancy were on the surface of the field, 
though fragments of flint and bits of pottery were noticed here and there, and the 
burnt clay usually present on aboriginal sites lay scattered around. There is little 
history of the discovery of aboriginal objects at this place, but as few persons live 
nearby, and as none of these has been there a long time, it is likely that former 
diggers got their full share without those at present on the spot having heard any- 
thing of it. 
The principal mound was as thoroughly examined as is permissible in a region 
subject to overflow, where mounds are a valuable asset, nine trial-holes having been 
put down and all subsequently greatly enlarged. 
Two burials were found, adults at full length on the back. With them were 
four pottery vessels, three of ordinary shape and undecorated, the fourth a bottle 
standing on a tripod support. 
